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EE392C Class Participation Tips The goal of EE392C is to facilitate in depth discussions of research issues and opportunities related to the architecture and system software for polymorphic/CMP processors. The success of the class and a significant portion of your final grade depend on your class participation… In practice, every student will be an instructor with the following responsibilities: zRead the assigned papers before each class meeting zParticipate in the discussion in every class meeting zLead the discussion during one class meeting zKeep notes of one class meeting zReview one or two final project reports The following sections provide some further advice on each activity… Reading and Summarizing Papers Our in-class discussions will be of little use if we are not prepared for them. Read the required paper in advance. If the specific topic is rather new to you, you may want to also read the background papers. If you have some extra time and like this topic, you can also study the papers for further reading. When reading and summarizing a paper, you are looking for the following: 1. The issue or problem addressed by the paper 2. The original contributions (real or claimed, you have to check) 3. Critique: what are the major strengths and weaknesses of the papers? Look carefully at the claims and assumptions, the experimental methodology, the analysis of data, and the presentation style 4. Future work: what are the natural extensions or improvements to this work? Or, can we apply a similar methodology to other problems of interest? If you are the discussion leader for a topic, you will need to write down all these in a summary that does not exceed 1 page per paper. I find the following techniques helpful with studying papers: zRead the abstract, introduction, and conclusions sections first. This should give you a good idea of the issue addressed, the basic insight of the authors, and the results achieved. zRead the reset paper twice. The first pass should be quick; you should try to get a rough idea of the flow of information, development of the main idea, and analysis of data. Once these seem to make sense, read the paper again and focus on the details. zUnderline/highlight the important parts of the paper. You can take a quick look at these points right before the class… zKeep notes on the paper margins about comments or questions that come to your mind as you read the paper: important insights, questionable claims or techniques, relevance to other topics, ways to improve some technique etc. This will help you a lot with the class discussion. zLook up references that seem to be important or missing. In some cases, you may also want to check who and how references this paper. The CiteSeer citation engine is a great source of backwards and forward citations (citation + text). Page 1 of 4EE392C Class Participation Tips3/25/2003file://E:\courses\392Cee\web\participate.htmlParticipating in the Class Discussion EE392C is structured around round-table discussions on advanced research topics. We will all be actively teaching each other. If you prefer lecture-based courses (like most of the 200-level courses), you should probably not take this class... You are expected to come to all the class meetings and be well prepared. Study the required papers for each topic in advance. You contribution in the discussion will be in the form of comments or questions. Here are some examples of the kind of participation we are looking for: zAsk a question on an issue, idea, or technique that is unclear; if you cannot understand something, there is a good chance others don’t understand it either zExplain an issue that seems unclear at the moment or deserves further discussion zPropose new ideas on the topic and attempt to develop them to concrete techniques zIdentify important issues that we are missing at the time zIndicate useful or damaging interactions with other fields; use your experience in other areas of computer engineering for this purpose and keep in mind the discussions from previous class meetings zProvide arguments to support or oppose a proposed idea; use qualitative or quantitative arguments to support your claims In general, I want you to be active in the classroom. No comment or idea is by default a bad one, so do speak up. However, be polite to your classmates and stick to the point. This is a discussion, not a competition… Leading a Class Discussion Each student is expected to lead one class discussion. The schedule will be arranged at the beginning of the quarter. If the enrollment is high, students will be paired for this task. Before for class meeting: 1. Carefully read the required papers for the class. Discussion leaders are also encouraged to study the background and further readings. 2. Prepare a short summary for each required paper. After the class meeting, the summaries will be integrated with the discussion notes. 3. Prepare a short presentation to initiate the discussion. Your presentation should cover the following: a. The issue addressed by the required papers and how does it relates to the class theme b. The summary of original contributions in the paper: ideas, achieved results, conclusions… c. Critique of the papers: major strengths and weaknesses… This presentation should take no more than 10 minutes. You can use graphs from the papers or other visual aids. You can use a laptop, transparencies, or draw on the blackboard, whichever you are more comfortable with. 4. Be prepared to explain some of the detailed issues in the paper. You can safely assume that your classmates have read the papers, so there is no need to include details in the presentation. However, you should be able to clarify or explain detailed issues, if necessary, during the class discussion. You don’t need to prepare graphs or visual aids for this purpose. Page 2 of 4EE392C Class Participation Tips3/25/2003file://E:\courses\392Cee\web\participate.htmlDuring the class meeting: 1. Give your introductory presentation 2. Lead the discussion. You can do this by preparing a set of interesting questions. Here are some (generic) examples: zWhat is the future work on this topic (unanswered questions)? Are there issues that we can improve on? How? zAre the better ways to solve the same problem? zIs this problem different within the context of polymorphic/CMP architectures? How can we adopt or expand the techniques in


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